• Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, 3 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2023.
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    Truth within Reason
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 47 227-236. 2023.
    It can be seen as a mark against a belief that its causal history be disconnected from the truth. And that idea fits well with the view that discovering that a belief’s causal history is so disconnected itself diminishes its normative status. But this latter view can also be held independently: believing that your belief was influenced by irrelevant factors might be seen as problematic even should it not be seen as in general a mark against a belief that it be caused in one way or another. I pur…Read more
  • Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 1. (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2019.
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    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 2 (edited book)
    with Ernest Lepore
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy O. 2021.
    Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers.
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    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2019.
    Philosophy of language has been at the centre of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. Since that 'linguistic turn' much of the most important work in philosophy has related to language. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers. Anyone wanting to know what's happening in philosophy of language could start with these volumes.
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    Saul Kripke (1940–)
    In A. P. Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, Blackwell. 2001.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Life Modal logic Meaning Necessity, a priority, the mind‐body problem, and essentialism Truth Substitutional quantification Wittgenstein on following a rule.
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    Primacy of Metaphysics, by Christopher Peacocke
    Mind 131 (524): 1364-1375. 2021.
    Peacocke introduces The Primacy of Metaphysics with the apt observation that ‘[t]here can be few issues as fundamental as the relation between the metaphysics o.
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    A Counter‐Reformation
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 104 (1): 250-255. 2022.
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 104, Issue 1, Page 250-255, January 2022.
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    Belief beyond groups
    Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 1-9. 2023.
    While groups can do many things, and are subject to important sorts of assessment, persons can exhibit some normative statuses that no group can realize. I defend an anti-realist position about group belief (and group agency, generally) and suggest that it can still, in a way, sympathetically accommodate the range of cases discussed by Lackey in her groundbreaking The Epistemology of Groups. The distinctive normative character of belief—its integration, in consciousness, into a framework of rati…Read more
  • What is it like to be a group?
    In Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Utilitarianism: the aggregation question, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, Volume 1 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2019.
    Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers.
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    Standard Bearers
    Episteme 14 (3): 329-341. 2017.
    In both ethics and epistemology an important question is whether justification is a fully internal or a partly external matter. In view of analogies between relevant considerations in each area, I recommend distinguishing, as basic and independent subjects of normative status, (i) people and (ii) what they do. Evaluations of subjects, on one hand, and of their beliefs and actions, on the other, are less intimately related than is presupposed. This helps resolve internalism/externalism controvers…Read more
  • Slouching Towards Dualism (review)
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 55 (216): 257-263. 2001.
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    Scenes seen
    Philosophical Books 47 (4): 314-325. 2006.
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    ¿Dónde se encuentra el enigma sobre la creencia?
    Critica 26 (76/77): 7-50. 1994.
  • Sellars',,Linguistizismus". Ein Kommentar zu Brandom
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 48 (4): 615-620. 2000.
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    Slouching Towards Dualism (review)
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 55 (216): 257-263. 2001.
    Searle may protest too much his anti-dualism. It may be that what needs reconsideration is not so much the traditional opposition between material and mental as the supposed opposition between property dualism and our contemporary scientific world view. Searle at one points notes that "[w]hen we come to the proposition that reality is physical, we come to what is perhaps the crux of the whole discussion." I agree.
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    The fine line
    Analysis 70 (2): 347-358. 2010.
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    What Does it Matter What it's Like?
    Philosophical Issues 25 (1): 224-242. 2015.
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    What is it like to be a group?
    Social Philosophy and Policy 26 (1): 212-226. 2009.
    Consequentialist and Kantian theories differ over the ethical relevance of consequences of actions. I investigate how they might differ too over the relevance of what actions are consequence of. Focusing on the case of group action and collective responsibility, I argue that there's a kind of analog to the problem of aggregating the value of consequencesthat Kantian theories will not confront and consequentialist theories will. The issue provides a useful way to characterize a deep difference be…Read more
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    Pathetic ethics
    In Brian Leiter (ed.), Objectivity in Law and Morals, Cambridge University Press. pp. 287--329. 2001.
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    Review: A Big, Good Thing (review)
    Noûs 38 (2). 2004.
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    Meaningful explanation
    Philosophical Issues 8 351-356. 1997.
  • About what are internalists and externalists in dispute fundamentally? Different sorts of thing.
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    A companion to analytic philosophy (edited book)
    with Aloysius Martinich
    Blackwell. 2001.
    This volume is a vital resource for anyone interested in analytic philosophy.
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    Representing Thoughts and Language
    Dissertation, Princeton University. 1996.
    These three papers, each constituting a chapter, lie at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. Chapter 1 reviews and reassesses Kripke's puzzle about belief. I argue, contra Kripke, that the puzzle shows Millianism to be inadequate . It must be supplemented with a Fregean theory. But Millianism and Fregeanism need not be opposed. Developing a distinction between mental representation and linguistic representation, I divide the notion of proposition. It is one thing to…Read more